Authorities banned women in Turkmenistan to drive the car in the middle of December 2017 regardless of existence of driving licenses. In January 2018, the patrol police started seizing women’s driving licenses and impounding cars.

9 tons of gold, diamonds and platinumspilled out of a cargo plane in Yakutia on March 15 when the An-12 plane's door broke down during the take off from the airport, eyewitnesses told YakutiaMedia news agency.

The police cordoned off the runway where the precious metals scattered and switched the airport to an enhanced control mode.

Presidents of Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Uzbekistan and the Prime Minister of Hungary confirmed their attendance at the opening ceremony of the 3rd World Nomad Games. The 3rd WNG opened on September 2 in Cholpon-Ata, Issyk-Kul.

The perpetrators transported heroin in juice bottles, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on March 20.

Citizens of Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Canada were involved in the drug trafficking.

The suspects are accused of setting up a channel for smuggling of hard drugs made in Afghanistan. The highly-addictive liquid heroin which is called ''Tears of Allah'' was transported by trucks en route Djelalabad (Afghanistan) — Khujand (Tajikistan) — Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) in juice bottles.

During transportation of mountain climbers, who ascended to the Isomoili Somoni peak in Tajikistan, the Mi-8 helicopter had a heavy touchdown at the Fortambek glacier, the Emergency Committee of Tajikistan said.

The helicopter had a crash landing at the Fortambek glacier on August 12 at the height of 4,200 meters, spokesperson Umeda Yusufi said.

A governmental commission was set up to investigate reasons and circumstances of the incident. Two helicopters with rescuers and health professionals were dispatched to the place of the incident, she said.

The helicopter was carrying 13 tourists from Russia, one national of Belarus, one Spanish citizen. According to preliminary report, one died as a result of crash landing.

President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov ruled to sack the Government of Kyrgyzstan on April 19, 2018 after the Parliament voted to express no confidence in the Government.

On April 17, the minority coalition of the parliament found the government's job done in 2017 unsatisfactory citing non-execution of the state budget of $3.335 billion, ineffective preparation for the heating season, lack of state control over the modernization of the Bishkek CHPP, failing to pilot launch on time the Safe City project in two cities, and drafting of an unfavorable for Kyrgyzstan agreement on Kumtor mine.

Isakov, 40, was appointed as the Prime Minister on August 26, 2017 by then-President Almazbek Atambayev.